WordStats for Comp. 1 View the Azed Slip | | 5 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1 | Mar 1972 | ORGIAST | normal | 22 |
Competition 1’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:
35 letters per clue (10 below the archive average, and 9 below the average for 7-letter words)
8.3 words per clue (1.3 below the archive average, and 0.9 below the average for 7-letter words)
Longest clue (the 1,289th longest normal clue in the archive)
I celebrate ‘first’ and ‘last’ in Observer – Azed’s inauguration in point of fact
62 letters, 13 words, by H. W. Massingham
Shortest clue (the 91st shortest normal clue in the archive)
Drunken sot, a rig
14 letters, 4 words, by C. Allen
Competition 1 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive:
G. A. Tomlinson | Bacchae |
Mrs J. Mackie | Borgia |
L. W. G. Oxley | corgi |
E. R. Evans | Doughboy |
S. L. Paton | ensnares |
Mrs J. Mackie | fascinate |
Mrs B. Lewis | groats |
Mrs B. Lewis | lunch-time |
Mrs J. Mackie | mysteries |
E. R. L. Timbrell | promiscuously |
Mrs J. Mackie | strychnine’s |
P. H. Taylor | tigs |
Brig R. F. E. Stoney | Tollesbury |
E. R. Evans | unhealthy |